In the Vinony graph
Vinony's link graph records 1,271 inbound references to Tai peoples, and connects out to Hlai, Austroasiatic and Chao Phraya River.
Vinony files it under Baiyue, Bouyei people and Dai people.
Vinony links it to 35 Wikipedia language editions.
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- ethnolinguistic group
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- Category:Tai peoples
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- Tai peoples
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- The Nuttall Encyclopædia
- language used
- Tai
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Encyclopedic overview
Tai peoples are the populations who speak (or formerly spoke) the Tai languages. There are a total of about 93 million people of Tai ancestry worldwide, with the largest ethnic groups being Dai, Thai, Isan, Lao, Shan, Ahom, Zhuang, Tày, Nùng, Táy, and some Northern Thai peoples.
The Tai are scattered through much of South China and Mainland Southeast Asia, with some (e.g. Tai Ahom, Tai Khamti, Tai Phake, Tai Aiton) inhabiting parts of Northeast India. Tai peoples are both culturally and genetically very similar and therefore primarily identified through their language.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tai peoples” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.